Ain't it funny, how time slips away...
Jimmy Carter lost a handful of men trying to rescue the hostages in Iran, and he's been savaged by the right ever since. Ronald Reagan lost 3 companies of Marines in Lebanon, and no one says a peep.
Actually, neither man can be blamed for small unit decisions and unforseen circumstances half a world away. The responsibility must always be the President's, but the commanders on the ground were in operational control. Peoplke die in wars, and operations sometimes fail. It's the nature of the beast.